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" Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. "

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" It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. "

" For me, habit is just a synonym for death. "

Juliette Binoche

" I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. "

Giuseppe Garibaldi

" We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. "

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" Hell, madam, is to love no longer. "

Georges Bernanos

" Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters. "

Kurt Eichenwald

" To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. "

" Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it. "

" You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit. "

" When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling. "

" Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. "

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

" When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken. "

Blase J. Cupich

" The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake. "

" As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. "

Robert Benchley

" Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed. "

" I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. "

" A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen. "

" Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. "

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" Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock. "

" While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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" Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged. "

Dianne Feinstein

" At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts. "

George Harrison

" Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album. "

" No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods. "